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Awards & Honors: Spring 2011

May 27, 2011 by Jessica Sinn Leave a Comment

Staff Six staff members in the College received a 2011 President’s Outstanding Staff or Supervisor Award in recognition of extraordinary contributions to the continuing success of the university including: Sally Dickson (European Studies) Jared Diener (Religious Studies) Nancy Moses (Government) Annelise Notzon (English) Maria Pineda (Germanic Studies) Gail Sanders (Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American […]

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Retired Faculty: Spring 2011

May 27, 2011 by Jessica Sinn Leave a Comment

More than 30 College of Liberal Arts professors from more than a dozen departments have retired over the past year, after spending decades serving their students and the university community. Retirees include Linguistics Professor Robert King, who was the founding dean of the College of Liberal Arts and served in that post from 1979–1989 and […]

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In Memoriam: Spring 2011

May 27, 2011 by Jessica Sinn Leave a Comment

Norval Glenn, professor emeritus of sociology, who taught for 47 years at the university, died Feb. 15. He was 77 years old. A prominent scholar of family sociology, Glenn wrote extensively on marriage and divorce, aging and the life course, and methods and survey data analysis. In 2008, he co-directed the first nationally representative sample […]

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Books: Spring 2011

May 26, 2011 by Michelle Bryant Leave a Comment

Spring 2011 titles from our college community.

After the Dust Settles

May 10, 2010 by Jessica Sinn Leave a Comment

Liberal Arts professors and students explore the next steps for Haiti The images of mass devastation, suffering, loss and chaos will forever remain with Suzanne Edwards after her trip to Haiti. On Jan. 12, less than an hour before the 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated the nation, Edwards, a University of Texas at Austin senior majoring […]

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In Memoriam: Spring 2010

May 10, 2010 by Jessica Sinn Leave a Comment

Shearer Davis Bowman, professor emeritus of history, died Dec. 4 at age 60. In 1986 Bowman began his career at The University of Texas at Austin, where he taught American history for 15 years. He wrote “Masters and Lords” and “At the Precipice,” which will be published this spring, as well as numerous articles and reviews. […]

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